IRENE CRISTINA MAMMARELLA
CURRENT POSITION:
Associate professor – Developmental Psychology(M-PSI/04)-Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, University of Padova, Italy

PREVIOUS POSITION
December, 2008– November, 2017: Lecturer – Developmental Psychology(M-PSI/04)-Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, University of Padova, Italy

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Specific Learning Disorders (Developmental Dyscalculia, Dyslexia); Nonverbal Learning Disability; High functioning autism; visuospatial working memory in developmental disorders; emotional aspects (mathematics anxiety, anxiety) in developmental disorders and in relation to academic achievement

MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
Member of the COST action IS1401ELN “STRENGTHENING EUROPEANS’ CAPABILITIES BY ESTABLISHING THE EUROPEAN LITERACY NETWORK”
Member of the Association for Psychological Science (APS)
Full member of MCLS (Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society)
Full member of EARLI (European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction)
Member of the Executive Committee and of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Association for Learning Disabilities Research and Intervention (AIRIPA Society)
Full member of IARLD (International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities)

EDITORIAL ACTIVITY
- Consulting editor and member of the editorial board of Educational Psychology
- Member of the editorial board of Learning and Individual Differences
- Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
- Ad-hoc reviewer for several international journals: Developmental Science, Learning and Instruction, Plos One, Cognitive Development, Journal of Learning Disabilities, Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, Research in Developmental Disabilities, Child Development

INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- Director of the post lauream (Master) course on Developmental Psychopathology, University of Padova
- Exchange Coordinator of the Erasmus programme between the Faculty of Educational Science, University of Oslo (Norway) and the University of Padova
- Exchange Coordinator of the Erasmus programme between the Department of Natural Sciences and Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, UK and the University of Padova
- Exchange Coordinator of the Erasmus programme between the Departments of Psychology of the University of Gent (Belgium) and the University of Padova
- Founder of a start-up founded by the University of Padova on learning disabilities (www.labda-spinoff.it)
- Member of the the Ph.D. program in Psychology, University of Padova

INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS
University of Gent - Prof. Herbert Roeyers
http://www.ugent.be/psync/en/about-psync.htm/partners.htm/herbertroeyers.htm

University of Cambridge - Center for Neuroscience in Education, Dr. Denes Szucs
http://www.cne.psychol.cam.ac.uk

Michigan State University (USA) - Prof. Jodene Fine
http://education.msu.edu/search/formview.aspx?email=finej@msu.edu

University of Oslo, Dept. Special Needs Education, Prof. Monica Melby-Lervag
http://www.uv.uio.no/isp/english/people/aca/monima/

University of Oxford - Dr. Ann Dowker
https://www.sthildas.ox.ac.uk/content/dr-ann-d-dowker

Notices